I’m grateful to have had key roles in projects essential to growth of Internet infrastructure (@NSFNet), the birth of E-commerce (@Amazon) and online education (@University of Washington).
Most recently I was Lead Information Architect of platforms supporting economic valuation, preservation and stewardship of all terrestrial and marine ecosystems on Earth. The team I hand-picked created a platform that is already shifting billions of dollars of corporate and government investment towards planetary sustainability (@Earth Economics).
Along the way I have also:
• helped create a new treatment for palliative care of mesothelioma (extending my father's life several years);
• had two original songs reach the top 40 on US AAA broadcast radio;
• discovered a species; and
• had the unusual honor of Jeff Bezos referring to me as "a genius... and a gentleman".
My greatest strengths are:
• crafting simple and elegant solutions to seemingly intractable problems;
• leveraging my pattern recognition skills, tenacity, people-savvy, and broad knowledge-base to complex projects;
• my ability to rapidly master new domains; and
• recruiting of and caring for high-performance teams.
I'm currently especially fascinated by:
• Leveraging the 3rd Generation blockchain RChain platform to solve problems that prior institutions and technologies have failed at miserably
• Data Sciences generally
• Applied Biological Research
• Microbiomics (esp. interaction of gut microbes & human health)
• Alternative Energy Technologies
• Information Architecture
• Evolutionary Economics
• Biomimicry
• Taxonomy (biological & digital)
I also have years of experience with Statistical Analysis and Data Modeling, and love digging VERY deeply into new domains, data, and models to detect previously unsuspected patterns and relationships.